The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-09
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work Of Bh Department.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-The annual report
II the Commissioner Of Agriculture was
laid bescre the President yesterday. The
Commissioner recommends substantially
the abolition Of the seed division Of the de-
partment and transfer Of its duties to the
state and Territorial and experimental
stations. The directors Of these institu-
lions, he says, ought to know what kind OF
,eed the farmers Of their respective neigh
borhcods are interested in. and what kinds
are best adapted to each locality. The.
Commissioner discusses the scope and
functions of the department In . way
which leaves room for the inference that.
he disapproves Of the efforts to make II Nh
executive department with q member OF
the Cabinet ut its head. Tho departments
position, he thinks, should be that Of an
adviser in those investigations and enter
prises which bear upon the agricultural
interests OF the country.
Tho Commissioners says it Is yet toO
early to make an official statement OF the
results in detail Of the present years ex-
perlments in the development Of sorghum
sugar manufacture. '.But." he adds,
''enough isknown already, i think, to enable
this country to anticipate at an early date
the production Of q sugar supply from u
plant as easy Of cultivation as corn, but lit
tie circumscribed by climatic influences
and one whose products have value equal
to the cost OF raising"
The work Of the Bureau of Animal In.
dustry. the report says, has been greatly
extended the past year. The Governors of
thirty. one States and Territories have &c
cepted the rules and regulations Of the
bureau and promised the assistance of local
police officers to secure their enforcement.
In addition to the Legislature Of Rhode
Island, Virginia, New York and Illinois
have enacted laws providing for co-opera-
tion. Tho worst infected counties, the re-
port says, and those from which there was
more danger Of the spread OF the disease,
viz, those in the neighbOrhood of New
York, Chicago and Baltimore, hare been
placed in quarantine and no cattle allowed
to leave them without permit issued after
a special examination. By this means new
outbreaks have been almost entirely pre-
vented.
From the beginning Of the work for the
eradication Of this disease in August, 1856,
TO October 81, 1887, the inspectors of the
bureau have inspected $50 herds. con-
tanning Iii, 40O animals, in districts where
the plague was supposed to exist. Among
these there were found 1SS infected herds,
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